Idiot Boxers Review: V, Season One Finale
TV review by Merrill Barr, co-host of The Idiot Boxers
Show: V
Airs: ABC, Tuesdays, 10pm
Episodes: Season One Finale
ABC’s attempt to revamp the 80’s miniseries that was V, turned into a mess of a series. With horribly one note characters, acting on par with an Uwe Boll movie, and CG that would make the original Tron look like AVATAR, V just misses the mark through and through. The finale was no different.
When we last leave our “heroes” they have suffered a major blow to their cause by being framed for blowing up a V ship full of humans. However those humans were already dead. The Fifth Column is days from ruin and their last hope is going to have to come from a unfamiliar place.
When we rejoin the gang, we find out that Erica Evans is going to head up to the V mother ship. Under the pretense of dinner with V leader Anna, to destroy Anna’s soldier eggs which, if hatch, will destroy the The Fifth Column along with much of humanity.
Surprise, surprise, their plan doesn’t go as planned. Their mole inside the mother ship, Joshua is taken prisoner when he is discovered. The problem is that I don’t care. I don’t care at all that he was captured, despite the fact he is the most interesting character of the entire show. Unfortunately, the rest of the show continues down this path. Anna murders Ryan’s fianceé in cold blood after she delivers the vuman (yes, I just made up a word) hybrid child. Ryan’s fate is left unclear though most likely he will be forced to turn back to Anna’s “bliss.”
Anna’s daughter decides to join the The Fifth Column and helps Erica find a way to destroy the V eggs. Along with this betrayal by Lisa, we also see Chad Decker learn the truth of the V’s activities. By the end of the episode, he too has joined the fight against the V’s. When Anna learns of the death of her eggs, she experiences “human emotion” in one of the worst breakdowns in TV history and sets into motion events that are sure to shape the outlook of next season.
You see how boring all of this sounds? That’s what I am trying to get across. V is suffering from lazy writer’s syndrome. Not in terms of things happening, because in a show with good characters these events would be really cool. The problem is that all the characters are written very one note. There is no depth to any of them. The acting is also horribly overdone in this show. We have seen this all season long. I can’t believe any of these people as good, bad, or anything in between. It’s all just boring.
In summary, V is not going down a good path. I have stuck with this show in hopes that it would get better (and so I can continue to make fun of it) but that hasn’t happened. Here’s hoping that V will pick up in the second season, but I wouldn’t count on it.
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Tags: 80s TV, Bad Special Effects, Elizabeth Mitchell, Evil Lizards, V
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